Texas to BAN divorce through a Constitutional Amendment.

[johncoby2]

The pandering and grandstanding continues in Texas, but this week they will take aim at divorce. HJR6, is intended to ban gay marriage, except the wording will also not recognize divorce!


A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Article I, Texas Constitution, is amended by adding Section 32 to read as follows:

Sec. 32. Marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman.

SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 8, 2005.

The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment providing that
marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman."

[Scout]

1. how does this ban divorce? n/t

[Warpy]

13. No more serial polygamy, I guess

with one man marrying a series of trophy wives and discarding them when time and childbirth get them looking a little shabby. He'd be allowed only one woman and she would be allowed only one man.

[tinrobot]

2. I don't get it.

How does it not recognize divorce?

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Well that ought to protect the "sanctity of marriage"!

[Fountain79]

4. curious

I am not catching where it outlaws divorce...

[mom cat]

5. How does this ban divorce? I don't get it.

[Tesibria]

ok - parse it out for us

"marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman"

it doesn't say ONE union -- it says union of ONE man and ONE woman -- can't that mean "at a time" ??

how is this banning divorce?

[candy]

6. Huh? Think before you post!

[solinvictus]

7. Well, damn!

I was going to move to Texas and marry a goat. There goes my dream. ;)

[beam me up scottie]

10. Try tennessee.

nt
:evilgrin:

[FreedomAngel82]

12. LOL

If you can marry your cousin in the south surely you can marry your dream goat. :)

[beam me up scottie]

14. Yep.

As long as you marry a girl goat if you're a boy, and a boy goat if you're a girl.
Wouldn't want anyone to think we're perverts or anything...
:P


edit:add punctuation

[Jack Rabbit]

8. I don't see how this bans divorce

It bans gay marriage, but that's all.

[eleny]

9. Talk about your wide open spaces!

Devlopers are going to love the plummeting price in housing.

[liberalhistorian]

11. Where do you get that it could

ban divorce? I'm not seeing it.

[karlrschneider]

15. Can I get some of whatever you're smoking?

:eyes:

[paineinthearse]

16. I don't see how this bans divorce - is there more????? nt

[johncoby2]

17. Here is how it bans divorce

Marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman.

One man and one woman. So if say a man gets divorced, then he couldnt marry again because it is only between one man and one women.

Maybe it should be one man and one woman at one time.


Uh....my point being if they want to protect marriage then ban divorce.

[Dookus]

18. sorry

your interpretation is silly. It wouldn't ban divorce.

[mom cat]

19. Even if correct, it would ban remarriage, not divorce, and annulment

has solved that little moral dilemna for quite some time now.

[johncoby2]

20. oh whatever. You are missing point.

nevermind.

[mondo joe]

23. No - we're just missing an inaccurate interpretation.

In divorce, marriage is terminated.

So if a man and woman divorce, neither is married to anyone any more.

As soon as one remarries, it is AGAIN one and one woman.

[Tesibria]

25. thanx - i was beginning to think i'd lost too many brain cells.... nt

[roguevalley]

21. I remember when divorce was banned. I hated it then, I hate it now.

[foreigncorrespondent]

22. Ummm...

...something tells me you best go back and read it again. All I see is them banning gay marriage. There is nothing there that includes divorce.

[pinkpops]

24. Which man and which woman?

[paineinthearse]

26. Brilliant!!!!!

Maybe there will be a lottery. And all the rest have to be celebate or live in sin and parent bastard children.

[Zynx]

27. Um, I call Bravo Sierra on this.

You need to stop staring at the computer so hard.